Considerations Going Forward

This section introduces you to topics you should consider before launching your own
Amazon S3
product.

AWS Account and Security Credentials

When you signed up for the service, you created an AWS account using an email address
and password. Those are your AWS account root user credentials. As a best practice,
you should not use your AWS account root user credentials to access AWS. Nor should
you give your credentials to anyone else. Instead, create individual users for those
who need access to your AWS account. Create an AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) user for yourself as well, give that user administrative privileges, and use
that IAM user for all your work. For information about how to do this, see Creating Your First IAM Admin User and Group in the IAM User Guide.

Security

Amazon S3 provides authentication mechanisms to secure data stored in Amazon S3 against
unauthorized access. Unless you specify otherwise, only the AWS account owner can
access
data uploaded to Amazon S3. For more information about how to manage access to buckets
and
objects, go to Managing Access Permissions
to Your Amazon S3 Resources in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.

You can also encrypt your data before uploading it to Amazon S3.

AWS Integration

You can use Amazon S3 alone or in concert with one or more other Amazon products.
The most
common products used with Amazon S3 are: